The Twitter feed on this blog searches without much care or discrimination for anything that includes the word “research”. The resulting timeline is pretty incoherent, and it gives you a sense of how often we turn to this word, while meaning quite a wide range of things. 792 more words

There are certain people who touch the lives of others, some lightly, some deeply, seemingly without effort or without concern for their own standing. To me, they more closely resemble the flight of bees fertilizing one flower after another than the deliberations of those in search of influence. 1,132 more words

We have been to see the sea. We see it fairly often in any case but this time it was for a long, hard look, the window of the sitting-room of the rented apartment giving straight out onto the smaller beach and a wide view of the sea. 1,485 more words